Talk:Labium (genitalia)

The following discusiion occurred on the talk pages of AndyZ and Mattopaedia and has been copied here for discussion of a proposed merge between labium and labia.

Welcome to Wikipedia (again)! I replaced your deleted sentence in the article Labium. It seems as if your main objection against the sentence is that it would simply be for "People who are interested in vulvas" (cough User:Alexander 007). However, your arguments aren't ground for the deletion of the sentence; conversely it results the deletion of the vulva in the See also section. As an encyclopedia, Wikipedia has to be factually accurate. In fact, I added more to the article about the Labium and its "role". AndyZ 01:58, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome! I didn't remove that sentence because I objected to some of the motives of "people interested in vulvas" in that schoolkid looking up rude words in the dictionary kind of way. I don't object to that at all - 20 years ago I would have been looking for precisely that reason! The reason I removed it was because I felt the neutrality of the article was compromised by labouring one interpretation. I've since re-read the NPOV policy and realise majority opinions may receive proportionately more space in an article without necessarily being POVist.

I've reconsidered my stance therefore, and decided I'll leave that aspect of the article alone. Now I've had more time to think about it I feel my major issue is there is one article for labia (plural) and one for labium (singular). They're both alternative forms of the same word and have similar links. Perhaps they should be merged. I'll put it up for consideration & post this to their discussion pages here and here. Mattopaedia 23:34, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

merge discussion

User:Anthopos removed the merge templates without discussion or consensus. It would be polite to wait a week or so then take action.

My stand point is to support merge of the articles .

Mattopaedia 06:33, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Its been a week since I suggested merging labium and labia. The only thing that's happened in that time was Anthopos removing the merge templates without warning or explanation. I reverted that edit and since then there's been silence. So I've made the decision & will merge labia into labium. --Mattopaedia 00:25, 15 January 2006 (UTC)